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We define a graph-based rate optimization problem and consider its computation, which provides a unified approach to the computation of various theoretical limits, including the (conditional) graph entropy, rate-distortion functions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Deheng Yuan , Tao Guo , Zhongyi Huang , Shi Jin

We present a black-box reduction from the path version of the Traveling Salesman Problem (Path TSP) to the classical tour version (TSP). More precisely, we show that given an $\alpha$-approximation algorithm for TSP, then, for any $\epsilon…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Vera Traub , Jens Vygen , Rico Zenklusen

Shortest paths in complex networks play key roles in many applications. Examples include routing packets in a computer network, routing traffic on a transportation network, and inferring semantic distances between concepts on the World Wide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Benjamin A. Miller , Zohair Shafi , Wheeler Ruml , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Scott Alfeld

Computing paths in graph structures is a fundamental operation in a wide range of applications, from transportation networks to data analysis. The beer path problem, which captures the option of visiting points of interest, such as gas…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Andrea D'Ascenzo , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Sotiris Kanellopoulos , Anna Mpanti , Aris Pagourtzis , Christos Pergaminelis

Graph coloring is a fundamental problem in combinatorics with many applications in practice. In this problem, the vertices in a given graph must be colored by using the least number of colors in such a way that a vertex has a different…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Arda Asik , Ibrahim Bugra Demir , Berker Demirel , Baris Batuhan Topal , Kamer Kaya

Finding a d-regular spanning subgraph (or d-factor) of a graph is easy by Tutte's reduction to the matching problem. By the same reduction, it is easy to find a minimal or maximal d-factor of a graph. However, if we require that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Kamiel Cornelissen , Ruben Hoeksma , Bodo Manthey , N. S. Narayanaswamy , C. S. Rahul

We study the Temporal Exploration problem, where an agent must visit all vertices of a temporal graph while traversing at most one available edge per time step. Unlike static graphs, which can be explored in linear time, temporal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ivan Lahtin , Viktor Zamaraev

The graph exploration problem is to visit all the nodes of a connected graph by a mobile entity, e.g., a robot. The robot has no a priori knowledge of the topology of the graph or of its size. Cohen et al. \cite{Ilcinkas08} introduced label…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Meng Zhang , Yi Zhang , Jijun Tang

We consider a modified random walk which uses unvisited edges whenever possible, and makes a simple random walk otherwise. We call such a walk an edge-process. We assume there is a rule A, which tells the walk which unvisited edge to use…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Petra Berenbrink , Colin Cooper , Tom Friedetzky

Word-representable graphs are a subset of graphs that may be represented by a word $w$ over an alphabet composed of the vertices in the graph. In such graphs, an edge exists if and only if the occurrences of the corresponding vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Duncan Adamson

Given an undirected graph G, the edge orientation problem asks for assigning a direction to each edge to convert G into a directed graph. The aim is to minimize the maximum out degree of a vertex in the resulting directed graph. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-23 H. Reinstädtler , C. Schulz , B. Uçar

This paper introduces a new learning-based approach for approximately solving the Travelling Salesman Problem on 2D Euclidean graphs. We use deep Graph Convolutional Networks to build efficient TSP graph representations and output tours in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Chaitanya K. Joshi , Thomas Laurent , Xavier Bresson

Temporal graphs are a class of graphs defined by a constant set of vertices and a changing set of edges, each of which is known as a timestep. These graphs are well motivated in modelling real-world networks, where connections may change…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Duncan Adamson

This paper discusses the graph covering problem in which a set of edges in an edge- and node-weighted graph is chosen to satisfy some covering constraints while minimizing the sum of the weights. In this problem, because of the large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Takuro Fukunaga

We study the computational complexity of multi-agent path finding (MAPF). Given a graph $G$ and a set of agents, each having a start and target vertex, the goal is to find collision-free paths minimizing the total distance traveled. To…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Tzvika Geft , Dan Halperin

Due to some significantly contradicting research results, we reconsider the problem of the online exploration of a simple grid cell environment. In this model an agent attains local information about the direct four-neigbourship of a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Maximilian Brock , Martin Brückmann , Elmar Langetepe , Raphael Wude

We present a trajectory optimization algorithm for the traveling salesman problem (TSP) in graphs of convex sets (GCS). Our framework uses an augmented graph of convex sets to encode the TSP specification and solve it exactly as a shortest…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Gael Luna , Tyler Summers

We consider the following generalization of the classic Binary Search Problem: a searcher is required to find a hidden target vertex $x$ in a graph $G$, by iteratively performing queries about vertices. A query to $v$ incurs a cost $c(v,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Michał Szyfelbein

In vertex recoloring, we are given $n$ vertices with their initial coloring, and edges arrive in an online fashion. The algorithm must maintain a valid coloring by recoloring vertices, at a cost. The problem abstracts a scenario of job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Boaz Patt-Shamir , Adi Rosen , Seeun William Umboh

Recent works on cost based relaxations have improved Constraint Programming (CP) models for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). We provide a short survey over solving asymmetric TSP with CP. Then, we suggest new implied propagators based…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Jean-Guillaume Fages , Xavier Lorca